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  • suspencefulS
    suspencefulS
    suspenceful
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    #513

    Uploaded on Imgur, not Flickr... quality kinda sucks.

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      Rowleym
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      #514

      Looks amazing. How does the wiring harness mount to the firewall in the back there?

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      sk8 or die

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      • GunMetalGreyG
        GunMetalGreyG
        GunMetalGrey
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        #515

        Thanks man!
        I just have the cover set there right now, but will be adding some mounting to the blower motor cover to be able to secure it.

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        • DrLeadFootD
          DrLeadFootD
          DrLeadFoot
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          #516

          Looking good!

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          • GunMetalGreyG
            GunMetalGreyG
            GunMetalGrey
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            #517

            I keep looking at those pictures and it bothers me every time that the one clamp is silver, I replaced it with a black one. Have no fear.
            Oil cooler is fully plumbed, and I started adding oil. I am at about 7 quarts with no cranking and I am just hitting the minimum oil level on the dipstick. Nifty!
            Exhaust is on, wiring is pretty much done, intercooler and whatnot are in place. 
            Add fluids, check for leaks, start it?
            I always feel like I am missing stuff and that it should take longer.... not that I usually miss things. Just feels weird having a working car ;)

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            • suspencefulS
              suspencefulS
              suspenceful
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              #518

              When you gonna attempt to start it? I wanna be there.

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              • GunMetalGreyG
                GunMetalGreyG
                GunMetalGrey
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                #519

                Got some coolant in it, added a fender and some hood support pieces.

                Gave her a bit of a crank to start moving some oil, everything sounded in check. May shoot for a fire up this weekend.

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                • GunMetalGreyG
                  GunMetalGreyG
                  GunMetalGrey
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                  #520

                  Did some cranking, but didn't get a spark. Will be digging into this issue tomorrow!

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                  • The Full BananaT
                    The Full BananaT
                    The Full Banana
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                    #521

                    Wow, this is really damn nice. Keep it up!

                    Tom - I have a few BMWs, an overworked Volvo 242, and now a YouTube channel called Drive, Revive, Tinker

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                    • GunMetalGreyG
                      GunMetalGreyG
                      GunMetalGrey
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                      #522

                      Diagnosed a bunch of stuff for the spark, will hopefully be testing my fix tomorrow! It appears that suddenly all of my coil drivers took a crap and don't work. Got a new one to try!
                      I ordered a horn button awhile ago that was said to be dimension A, which I figured would be the mounting hole diameter. Well it turned out that it was actually the overall diameter. So a bit ago I designed an adapter and printed it! 
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                      Works pretty well, looks pretty decent. 
                      I thought I had more pictures to post. But I don't....
                      Moving shops soon? Bigger shop, smaller bathroom, pretty sweet. Will post pics of that too!

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                      • suspencefulS
                        suspencefulS
                        suspenceful
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                        #523

                        GunMetalGrey said:

                        Moving shops soon? Bigger shop, smaller bathroom, pretty sweet. Will post pics of that too!

                        Make up your damn mind, son!

                        Glad you're making progress.

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                        • GunMetalGreyG
                          GunMetalGreyG
                          GunMetalGrey
                          wrote on last edited by
                          #524

                          Mind is 99% made up, just waiting on confirmation from other parties involved. 
                          Tonight will be spark test night, I shall update with the results of that.

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                            Rowleym
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                            #525

                            GunMetalGrey said:

                            Mind is 99% made up, just waiting on confirmation from other parties involved. 

                            Tonight will be spark test night, I shall update with the results of that.

                            Are you using the drivers that came out of the stock ecu?

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                            • GunMetalGreyG
                              GunMetalGreyG
                              GunMetalGrey
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                              #526

                              No

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                              • R
                                R
                                Rowleym
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                                #527

                                GunMetalGrey said:

                                No

                                IF YOU need some quality drivers, steal some out of an old m50 ecu. They work great. If you need to know how to wire it, head over to BF.C and checkout dburts ms3 writeup

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                                • GunMetalGreyG
                                  GunMetalGreyG
                                  GunMetalGrey
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                                  #528

                                  She breathed on her own yesterday. Feels good bruh.
                                  It turns out I didn't actually have 12v at the coils... don't know how I thought I did. 
                                  Now to get the shop rearranged so I can get the car out, then do some driving.

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                                  • GunMetalGreyG
                                    GunMetalGreyG
                                    GunMetalGrey
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                                    #529

                                    http://vid756.photobucket.com/albums/xx209/gunmetalgrey/Mobile%20Uploads/VID_20150524_171956_645_zps4mv4dej8.mp4
                                    Oh boy do I miss this noise.
                                    Got it started, but it was running like crap. After much headache and many days spent trying to figure out what was going on. Today we noticed something coming out of the exhaust, that seemed to be a bit "clothy" it all came rushing back
                                    I had test fit the manifold on the motor and figured I would take it off later, well a few weeks went by and I realized that I had no reason to take it off, so I bolted it down. I completely forgot about the fact that I had paper towel stuffed in all of the intake ports to keep things from getting in them. She was chewing up the paper towel and spitting it out. Here is what it looked like when we opened it up.
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                                    No wonder it ran like crap. Feel a bit like an idiot, but oh well! 

                                    Edit: you can see a piece fly out of the exhaust in the video lol

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                                    • GunMetalGreyG
                                      GunMetalGreyG
                                      GunMetalGrey
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                                      #530

                                      I also got my first chip in my f*cking engine bay. 
                                      Had an extension drop off my 1/4" ratchet. Wasn't thrilled about that.

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                                      • Bassboy3313B
                                        Bassboy3313B
                                        Bassboy3313
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                                        #531

                                        GunMetalGrey said:

                                        http://vid756.photobucket.com/albums/xx209/gunmetalgrey/Mobile%20Uploads/VID_20150524_171956_645_zps4mv4dej8.mp4

                                        Oh boy do I miss this noise.

                                        Got it started, but it was running like crap. After much headache and many days spent trying to figure out what was going on. Today we noticed something coming out of the exhaust, that seemed to be a bit "clothy" it all came rushing back

                                        I had test fit the manifold on the motor and figured I would take it off later, well a few weeks went by and I realized that I had no reason to take it off, so I bolted it down. I completely forgot about the fact that I had paper towel stuffed in all of the intake ports to keep things from getting in them. She was chewing up the paper towel and spitting it out. Here is what it looked like when we opened it up.

                                        IMG20150524161757645zpsxu4tcogd.jpg

                                        No wonder it ran like crap. Feel a bit like an idiot, but oh well! 

                                        Edit: you can see a piece fly out of the exhaust in the video lol

                                        Don't feel too bad. You're not the only one this happened to, lol.

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                                        • GunMetalGreyG
                                          GunMetalGreyG
                                          GunMetalGrey
                                          wrote on last edited by
                                          #532

                                          Ha! You're not the first person to say that either!
                                          Took it up and down the road a bit yesterday when I had to move the shop around. I had a coolant leak at the heater core hose, and i forgot to screw the fuse box cover back down, so that went flying lol.
                                          She scoots, real good. I have missed driving an e30!

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